Pubdate: Mon, 02 Dec 2013
Source: Tampa Bay Times (FL)
Copyright: 2013 St. Petersburg Times
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Author: John G. Chase
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v13/n564/a06.html
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD
Re: A shift in attitudes on marijuana (Nov. 26, letter)
This letter invites the question: What will it take to formalize the
shift? Justice Louis Brandeis spoke approvingly of the 'laboratory of
the states' as the test bed for proposed changes in social policy.
Florida has a chance to become one of those states, and Florida
voters need not wait for their Legislature to wake up.
Florida's Constitution provides that Florida voters can make law
themselves by citizens' initiative. The first step to do that is the
petition, now on the street, to put the question of medical marijuana
on the November ballot. The petition needs over 300,000 more Florida
voters to sign it in the next few weeks just to put the question on
the ballot. If it reaches the ballot, it likely will pass, given the
recent shift in attitudes.
John G. Chase, Palm Harbor
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